Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-02-04
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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
BUSINESS MEN AROUSED.
The Coal Strike Must Be
Settled.
nR. M'GLYNN HAS HIS SAY.
A Sharp Reply To Arch
bishop Corrigan.
BOODlER CLEARY'S TURN NEXT.
A Murder Mystery On Long
Island.
BOoDLER CLEARY'S TURN NEXT.
BUSINESS MEN TO TAKE A HAND

BUSINESS MEN TO TAX e HAND
| Coal Strike-A Mass Meeting Called
For Tomorrow Night Non-UnfoR
| Coal Handlers Join the Strikers.
New YORK, Feb. Sat the monthly
meeting of the chamber of commerce to-day
g resolution was offered by John F. Henry
for committee of members to investigate
the present labor troubles and offer to arb1-
trate them. James Ell. Seymour moved to
substitute resolution that the strike is di-
verting business to other cities; that it is the
| right of business men to legally insist that
transportation companies shall perform their
| duties and handle freight and that the
| chamber call a meeting of business men to
| discuss the cause and remedy of the existing
situation. The whole matter was after de-
bate referred to the executive committee
with power to act. Subsequently James H
Seymour, g. Waldo Smith, J. F. Henry and
George G. Bachelor as committee repre-
senting the business men called mass meet
ing for Saturday evening at Steinway Hall
for the purposes named in Mr.. Seymour's
resolutions.
The committee of five appointed by the
legislature to investigate the cause of the
present coal strike and all the other strikes
which have followed it met to-day in the
aldermanic chamber in the City Hall. The
committee consists of John G. Hageboom of
Hudson, chairman, D. E. Ainsworth of Os-
wego, M. F. Collins of Troy, w. H. Kimball
of Canton and John Martin of New York.
The chairman said that as it was the first
meeting of the committee and as the subpe
macs they proposed having served arrived
late last night from Albany, he thought It
advisable to adjourn until to morrow in Or
der that the sergeant at arms could have time
to summon the witnesses. Assemblyman
Collins says all the parties interested will be
given full hearing. The presidents of the
various steamship companies and the leaders
of the Knights of Labor will be subp9naed
and the committee intend to give the fullest
latitude to all the witnesses with view of
arriving at a sensible report on the strike
and recommending bill on the subject to
the legislature. The committee adjourned
until tomorrow.
The incident of the day was the strike of
the $50 non union men who have been hand
ling coal at Port Richmond, Staten Island.
They will join the Knights. Their action
still further reduces the coal supply as Port
entry for New York and Brooklyn since the
strike began. 1t is remarked as noteworthy
that not one of all the coal handlers who
have gone out since the trouble began has
returned to work.
The men who were brought here from Gin
cinnati to work on the piers refused to go to
work when they learned that they were ex-
pected to take the places of strikers.
Several cases of assault on the river front
by striking 1engshoremen were reported late
this afternoon. The most serious was that
of Robert Hunt, laborer, at the National
dock and Henry Shaw, rigger, employed on
the Guion line. No arrests were made.
Battle with the Police.
JERSEY CRY, Feb. 3.-About three hun
dred strikers attempted to force entrance
10 pier No. 8 of the Erie road where one
hundred and fifty non union Italians were
working late this afternoon. They were
intercepted by a squad of police and hard
fight ensued. The strikers threw bricks and
stones and the police used their clubs freely.
In few moments the mob broke and ran.
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